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<blockquote data-quote="jayem" data-source="post: 74631616" data-attributes="member: 8344"><p>And 50 years ago, you could fill your gas tank for about 35¢ a gallon. If a price war was on, I'd find it for 25¢. My first car was a '71 Plymouth Duster that cost me $2100 brand new. When I started college in 1968--at a private university--my tuition was $600 a quarter. It did go up every year, but when I finished undergrad and professional school 7 years later, it was $1,000/quarter. An incredible bargain relative to what higher education costs today. My 2 roommates and I shared a 3 BR, 1 1/2 bath apartment, in a nice area near the campus for less than $300/month. A 25'' color TV and a nice component stereo system were the highest-tech electronic luxuries you could have. Along with an 8-track or cassette tape player in your car.</p><p></p><p>Keep in mind, the economy of the 50s to the 70s was really an aberration. The US was the only first-world country who's industrial base wasn't wrecked in WW2. We could manufacture, sell, and buy anything we wanted, and what we were willing to pay set prices for rest of the world. The US was the global economy for a good 25 years or so. Also, this was when labor unions were at peak strength. A worker in a manufacturing job could earn enough to support a fairly comfortable lifestyle for his family. But none of this could last. The change started in the 70s when OPEC--which had been more or less a tool of international oil companies--began asserting the sovereignty of the member nations to set oil prices and production. When energy prices began rising, it signaled that the end of American economic hegemony was coming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jayem, post: 74631616, member: 8344"] And 50 years ago, you could fill your gas tank for about 35¢ a gallon. If a price war was on, I'd find it for 25¢. My first car was a '71 Plymouth Duster that cost me $2100 brand new. When I started college in 1968--at a private university--my tuition was $600 a quarter. It did go up every year, but when I finished undergrad and professional school 7 years later, it was $1,000/quarter. An incredible bargain relative to what higher education costs today. My 2 roommates and I shared a 3 BR, 1 1/2 bath apartment, in a nice area near the campus for less than $300/month. A 25'' color TV and a nice component stereo system were the highest-tech electronic luxuries you could have. Along with an 8-track or cassette tape player in your car. Keep in mind, the economy of the 50s to the 70s was really an aberration. The US was the only first-world country who's industrial base wasn't wrecked in WW2. We could manufacture, sell, and buy anything we wanted, and what we were willing to pay set prices for rest of the world. The US was the global economy for a good 25 years or so. Also, this was when labor unions were at peak strength. A worker in a manufacturing job could earn enough to support a fairly comfortable lifestyle for his family. But none of this could last. The change started in the 70s when OPEC--which had been more or less a tool of international oil companies--began asserting the sovereignty of the member nations to set oil prices and production. When energy prices began rising, it signaled that the end of American economic hegemony was coming. [/QUOTE]
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